Suicidology : contemporary developments /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Shneidman, Edwin S
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Grune & Stratton, 1976
New York : [1976], ©1976
New York : [c1976]
New York : c1976
New York : ©1976
New York : c1976
New York : [1976]
Series:Seminars in psychiatry (New York, N.Y. : 1975)
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Crisis intervention and suicide prevention / Ari Kiev
  • The volunteer suicidologist: current status and future prospects / Richard K. McGee
  • The recent decline of suicide in Britain: the role of the Samaritan Suicide Prevention Movement / Richard Fox
  • Beyond crisis intervention / Robert E. Litman & Carl I. Wold
  • Introduction: current overview of suicide / Edwin S. Shneidman
  • United States suicide rates, 1933-1968: an analysis of some trends / James C. Diggory
  • The demographic epidemiology of suicide / Leonard L. Linden & Warren Breed
  • Black suicide in New Orleans / William C. Swanson & Warren Breed
  • Lethality factors and the suicide attempt / J. William Worden
  • Development and validation of scales for estimation of suicide risk / Jerome A. Motto & David C. Heilbron
  • Reasoning patterns in suicide notes / Peter Tripodes
  • Current developments in the study of suicidal thinking / Charles Neuringer
  • Suicide notes reconsidered / Edwin Shneidman
  • Self-mutilation and suicide / Michael A. Simpson
  • Growing up dead: student suicide / Herbert Hendin
  • Suicide among the gifted / Edwin S. Shneidman
  • The morality and rationality of suicide / Richard Brandt
  • Legal views of suicide / Thomas L. Shaffer
  • Suicide as the preferred way of death / Robert Kastenbaum